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Programming Leftovers
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Rlang ☛ Sankey plots can work, but need polishing like any other graphic by @ellis2013nz
So a critical discussion of Sankey plots floated across my feed on Bluesky recently, and one reply included an ugly example and the comment “Anybody who thought that this illustration enhanced clarity lives in an alternative reality”. -
Rlang ☛ Setting Future Plans in R Functions — and Why You Probably Shouldn’t
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Rlang ☛ How to make a Financial Times Plot with ggplot2 in R?
Hello folks!
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Rlang ☛ How to draw a candlestick chart in R? – Both ggplot2 and plotly
Candlestick charts are a type of financial chart used to depict the price movements of an asset over a specific period.
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Godot Engine ☛ Maintenance release: Godot 3.6.1
Godot 3.6 was released in September last year, and it has been mostly stable, although there have been a few more important bugs which warrant a maintenance "patch" release (3.6.x).
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Perl / Raku
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Perl ☛ Analysing FIT data with Perl: producing PNG plots
Last time, we worked out how to extract, collate, and print statistics about the data contained in a FIT file. Now we’re going to take the next logical step and plot the time series data.
Start plotting with Gnu
Now that we’ve extracted data from the FIT file, what else can we do with it? Since this is time series data, the most natural next step is to visualise the data values over time. Since I know that Gnuplot handles time series data well,1 I chose to use
Chart::Gnuplotto plot the data.
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